[Osmf-talk] Possible AoA Amendment #2: Your boss can't force you to vote a certain way

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 13:13, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > OK, now I am lost in an analogy.
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> Heh, I was lost from the beginning. I think Andy's analogy was about the OSMF, not OSM. If OSM ever had an early moment that looked like a garden party, it would have made the Mad Hatter's tea party look quite dainty. Picture SteveC running around yelling "MAPS" and throwing OSM kool-aid into the air, all broadcast to the world.
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> I get Andy's point -- entities with a lot of resources can intentionally or unintentionally cause problems.

Without wanting to belabour the point, my point was indeed that large
entities can unintentionally cause problems.

The animal analogy was mainly because putting organisations into
proper relative proportions is hard - saying e.g. $1.5tn is hard to
imagine, and even writing numbers in longform is misleading since
$100000000 vs $1000000 is only 3 digits longer instead of one thousand
times bigger. Rabbits and elephants were chosen since even the largish
number of elephants was still at the edge of most people's familiarity
with numbers of objects.

For a better example to give financial scales, please see
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ and then imaging that I
have both the time and skills to likewise build a site like that to
compare the OSMF to the mentioned organisations.

The annual garden teaparty was meant to relate to the annual OSMF
elections and the AGM, where we all get together as equals despite our
varying backgrounds and resources. I would rather our annual event
involved more scones and jam than angry mailing list conversations
each year, but I can only live in hope.

Thanks,
Andy